Grab-handle for railway-cars.



PATENTED MAR. 7, 1905.

3. M. CURWB GRAB HANDLE FOR RAILWAY GARS.

APPLICATION FILED D130.17,1904.

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, NITED STATES Patented March 7, 1905.

PATENT O FICE.

SAMUEL M. (JURIVEN, OF HAVERFORD, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIG-NOR TO JOHN A. BRILL, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

GRAB-HAN DLE FOR RAILWAY-CARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 784,520, dated March 7, 1905.

Original application filed September 6, 1904, Serial No. 223,544. Divided and this application filed December 17,1904. Serial No. 237,225.

To (tZl whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL M. (JURwEN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Haverford, Montgomery county, State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsfiin Grab-Handles for Railway-(Jars, of which the following is a specilication.

This is a division of my application filed on the 6th day of September, 1904, and serially numbered 223,544.

My invention relates to grab-handles adapted for use in open or summer cars in which the passengers leave from the side of the car between the stanchions; and it is my object to provide a grab-handle which will be changed in its position with relation to the stanchion, so as to induce passengers to use the handle in front of them, and thus leave the car facing in the proper direction.

The operation and construction of details of my invention will be hereinafter set forth.

In the drawings forming a part of this specilication, Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly broken away, of a car-stanchion and a car; seat, together with my improved grab-handle. Fig. 2 is a cross-section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1 looking downwardly. Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. l with the car-seat left out and illustrating the use of a locking means, and Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4 4 of Fig. 3 looking downwardly.

In the various views I have shown my invention as applied to the ordinary car side posts or stanchions 1, against which an ordinary seat 2 abuts, and the seat-back 3. In this construction shown it will be seen that my improved handle is adapted to be shifted by the seat-back 3 when the latter is thrown over. In Fig. 1 the seat-back is pivoted to the stanchion at the end of the seat-arm 4, so that the pin 5 passes through the stanchion in which it has its bearing and is provided on the outer side of the stanchion with a gear 6. Instead of the ordinary handle applied to the stanchion I have applied a handle consisting of a vertical rod 7, held by the arms 8 and 9 at a point sufliciently distant laterally from the post to allow for grabbing the handle. The handle? is made to swing to either side of the post, according to the direction in which the car moves, and for this purpose the arms 8 and 9 are fulcrumed on suitable supports 10 and 11, arranged along the stanchion, and may be of any desired number, although I have found the number illustrated to be the most desirable. On the intermediate arm 12, which is fulcrumed to the stanchion, I have provided the gear 13, which lies horizontally and is adapted to mesh with the gear 6, together with which the same forms a miter engagement.

From this construction it is obvious that when the seat-back 3 is thrown over at the end of a journey the gear 6 by reason of its movement with the pin 5 engages with the gear 13 and causes the arm 12 to swing in a horizontal arc until the handle is reversed in its position with regard to the stanchion. The direction of the movement of the seatback is indicated by the arrows. lVhile the seat-back 3 when at rest serves to hold the handle in its proper position, I have deemed it best to provide a means for more rigidly holding the handle against outward stresses, and for this purpose I have provided an arm 14, (see Figs. 3 and 4,) which is secured to the end of the pin 5 of the seat-back, so as to move with the latter. This arm' is provided with two impaling-lingers 15, one of which overlaps the central arm 12 to hold the handle against outward movement. When the position of the various parts is reversed, the arm 14 swings in a circle, so that the opposite impaling-finger engages with thearm 12. The arm 14 may be used with the grab-handle independent of the gear arrangement, in which event the handles would have to be reversed by hand.

Having described my invention, what I claim is- 1. A railway-car having side posts or stanchions, side openings between the stanchions, a grab-handle comprising a vertical rod, secured to the stanchion by a horizontal arm, adapted to move in a horizontal arc, and means for holding said arm in predetermined positions in relation to said stanchion.

. 2. A railway-car having side posts or stanchions, side openings between the stanchions, a seat between the stanchions and having a seat-back, a grabhandle secured to the stanchion by a horizontal arm, adapted to move in a horizontal arc, and means carried by said seat-back for engaging said horizontal arm to hold the same in predetermined positions.

3. Arailway-car having side posts or stanchions, side openings between the stanchions, a movable seat-back between the stanchions, a

grab-handle secured to the stanchion by a chion, a gear secured to one of said arms, and a second gear movablewith the said seat-back engaging with the first gear whereby the moverfient of the seat-back will shift said grab-hanc e.

5. A railway-car having side posts or stanchion's, side openings between the stanchions, a grab-handle having arms fulcrumed to the stanchion, a gear on one of said arms, a swing seat back having a pivoting pin passing through said stanchion, provided with a gear adapted to engage with the said first-mentioned gear to shift the said handle and an arm secured to said pin adapted to laterally engage with the arm of said grab-handle in its reversed positions.

Signed this 21st day of November, 1904:. SAML. M. CURWEN.

Witnesses:

WM. J. FERDINAND, H, A. HEULINGS. 

